fast deploy in rails 3.1

gistfile1.rb

# comment out  "deploy/assets" in your capfile,  we are doing this locally



namespace :noumad do
  desc "Compress assets in a local file"
  task :compress_assets do
    run_locally("rm -rf public/assets/*")
    run_locally("bundle exec rake assets:precompile")
    run_locally("touch assets.tgz && rm assets.tgz")
    run_locally("tar zcvf assets.tgz public/assets/")
    run_locally("mv assets.tgz public/assets/")
  end

  desc "Upload assets"
  task :upload_assets do
    upload("public/assets/assets.tgz", release_path + '/assets.tgz')
    run "cd #{release_path}; tar zxvf assets.tgz; rm assets.tgz"
    run_locally("rm -rf public/assets/*")
  end
end


....

after 'deploy:update_code', "noumad:compress_assets"
after "deploy:symlink", "noumad:upload_assets"